Improved horse-racket



AUNITED STATES Ario-RAGE B. DAVIS, or' LEXINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

Y IMPRovED HoRsE-RAcKET.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 24,380, dated J une14,1859.

To @ZZ whom, t may concern: l

Beit known that I, HORACE B. DAVIS, of

i Lexington, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, haveinvented a new and improved mode of attaching the horseracket to thefoot of the animal, avoiding a1- together the galling of the fetlock orankle by straps of leather, or the compression of the hoof by clamps ofWood, iron, or other hard substances acting directly upon the hoof,which galling and'compression of the foot is often very injurious,producing lameness in the limb; and l do hereby declare that thefollowing is a fulland exact description of the construction andoperation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,

making a part of this specification, in Which-,-

Figure lis the ground-floor or bottom of the racket; Fig. 2, a frontelevation; Fig. 3, a back View of the racket; Fig. 4, a side View, andFig. 5 a View of the transverse section.

K K represents the elevated part ofthe front of the racket, whichanswers the threefold purpose of strengthening the bottom or floor ofthe racket, supporting and confining the front of the foot, and ofreceiving and sustaining the rod which acts upon the heel of the shoe.

and round the heel or hinder `part ofthe foot. The space inclosed bythis rod may be enlarged or contracted to the size of different feet bythe thumb-screws A A, the aperture or mortise F allowing the movement ofthat part of the rod backward or forward for that purpose.

E E represents a small iron rod, the ends of p which lpass through thefront elevation,K K,

G represents the heel-bolt, which is attached to the rod E E, and passesthrough the mortise F, and is by the nut and screw H H to be drawn down,so as to bring the rod E E upon the heel part of the shoe I I, and thusattach C the foot iirmly'to the racket in the rear, while the toe of theshoe is held firmly by the hollow in the central part of the frontelevation, K K, which hollow is represented by D in the drawings.

The heel-bolt G may either ypass round the rod E E, as shown in Design 1in the drawings, and be held by the nut and screw. H H on the lower sideof floor; or the rod may be elon-v gated, as shown in Design 2, in whichcase the heel-bolt willl pass through the elongated portion of the rod,and the nut and screw H H may be placed upon the upper side of the floorof the racket.

Ido not claim horse-rackets-now extensively used to enable farmers tocultivate their moist swampy lands; but 1 I claim"h l.. The improvedmode of fastening and conning it to the foot by having the pointsV ofattachment'bear directly upon the shoe, so as not to injure the ankle orfetlock by galling or the hoof by compression.

2. The machinery by which the racket is adjusted to the size ofthe'foot, and held more firmly and securely than by any other mode ofattachment now known.

HORACE B. DAVIS.

vInfpresence of- L. J. LIVERMORE, M. B. HUDSON.-`

